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With Love From Us To You!
Hey, Route! With Valentine's Day looming on the horizon and coming up fast, and a few weeks of rather unusual weather heading your way, we've accordingly got a little event for you!
As some of our oldbies may remember, about this time last year we had Operation: Lovebug, complete with a blackout designed to help foster the dwindling populations of Volbeat and Illumise around the regions. Well, the good news is, the populations are back up to optimal levels this year, so a repeat performance won't be necessary!
The more interesting news is, this year there's going to be a swarm of a slightly different variety...
HELLO, FRIENDS.
Beginning on February 13, these strange gooblob creatures will be appearing sporadically all over Johto and Kanto! The swarm will continue through February 14 and eventually dwindle to a close early on February 15, so spot them while you can! After all, this is a rare and unusual treat — nobody in either region has ever seen something like this before, and it looks like they'll be around for a limited time only!
...Well, at this point, anyway.
☆ PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ ☆
☆ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT DETAILS ABOUT THIS EVENT! ☆
• Yes, this is in fact a GOOMY SWARM.
• Yes, your characters can use this event to add Goomies to their roster.
• There is no cap on how many Goomies a character can catch during this event.
• However, THERE IS NO POKEDEX INFORMATION WHATSOEVER on your Goomies! This means that characters who capture or encounter one will not know anything about it — there is no information available on type, moveset, egg cycles, evolutions, nothing.
• Yes, this includes species name. In the true spirit of Pikablu and other entertaining fan speculation on sneak previews of Pokemon, we are highly encouraging characters to ICly come up with their own theories about what these mysterious blobcreatures are! The NPCs will be referring to them as Bloobers until the Gen VI Pokedex officially comes out in-game later this year, but you're welcome to contribute your own ideas ICly!
• This lack of information will be mod-enforced. If your character is the kind of person to sit there and rattle off every single move in known existence just to try and figure out the thing's moveset through pure trial and error, please talk to us so we can work something out with you!
OTHER IC INFORMATION ON THIS EVENT!
• Because Goomies need to stay damp in order to survive, the dry and sunny weather will understandably not be very good for them! Fortunately, they will also be having some Pokemon friends coming to their rescue — so in places where there are Goomies, characters may also spot roving swarms of Bronzong, who will be opening portals to another dimension in order to steal rainclouds and bring some localized downpours to their Goomy friends!
• On February 14, the Pokemon Professors and several other experts in the region will be making a news broadcast recommending that trainers try to keep the mysterious gooblobs damp whenever possible, to try not to hinder them in wherever they're going, and please do not throw them into the oceans and lakes. Invasive species, guys.
• Trainers in Johto may notice that the Goomy swarms appear to be drifting generally eastward; trainers in Kanto will likewise observe them moving westward.
• Local NPC groups may be holding demonstrations, fundraisers, and other volunteer drives encouraging people to Respect The Bloobers! These are mysterious and beautiful creatures (probably) and Pokemon PETA will be quite annoyed if they discover people have been hassling them.
• Again, attempts to register or identify the Goomies with the Pokedex will only return an "Error: No Information!" message.
• ETA: YES, THE GOOMIES CAN BE TAUGHT TMs/HMs, provided your character would ICly think to attempt it!
IN SUMMATION:
• February 13 —Goomies Bloobers appear around noon, at levels comparable to whatever route or town they're spotted in!
• February 14 —Goomies Bloobers begin migration toward Tohjo Falls eastward if in Johto, and westward if in Kanto!
• February 14 — Bronzong also begin to swarm to help out theirGoomy Bloober buddies.
• February 14 — The Pokemon Professors make a televised announcement that they have no idea WTF is going on here, either, but it's probably science.
• February 14 — Nationwide grassroots efforts among the NPCs to help, defend, champion, or celebrate theGoomies Bloobers.
• February 15 — TheGoomy Bloober swarm ends around noon!
Also, please feel free to use the comments of this post for plotting, screaming, and other general arranging of Bloober-filled Valentine's Day shenanigans!
STILL GOT QUESTIONS? ASK US!
As some of our oldbies may remember, about this time last year we had Operation: Lovebug, complete with a blackout designed to help foster the dwindling populations of Volbeat and Illumise around the regions. Well, the good news is, the populations are back up to optimal levels this year, so a repeat performance won't be necessary!
The more interesting news is, this year there's going to be a swarm of a slightly different variety...
HELLO, FRIENDS.
Beginning on February 13, these strange gooblob creatures will be appearing sporadically all over Johto and Kanto! The swarm will continue through February 14 and eventually dwindle to a close early on February 15, so spot them while you can! After all, this is a rare and unusual treat — nobody in either region has ever seen something like this before, and it looks like they'll be around for a limited time only!
...Well, at this point, anyway.
☆ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT DETAILS ABOUT THIS EVENT! ☆
• Yes, this is in fact a GOOMY SWARM.
• Yes, your characters can use this event to add Goomies to their roster.
• There is no cap on how many Goomies a character can catch during this event.
• However, THERE IS NO POKEDEX INFORMATION WHATSOEVER on your Goomies! This means that characters who capture or encounter one will not know anything about it — there is no information available on type, moveset, egg cycles, evolutions, nothing.
• Yes, this includes species name. In the true spirit of Pikablu and other entertaining fan speculation on sneak previews of Pokemon, we are highly encouraging characters to ICly come up with their own theories about what these mysterious blobcreatures are! The NPCs will be referring to them as Bloobers until the Gen VI Pokedex officially comes out in-game later this year, but you're welcome to contribute your own ideas ICly!
• This lack of information will be mod-enforced. If your character is the kind of person to sit there and rattle off every single move in known existence just to try and figure out the thing's moveset through pure trial and error, please talk to us so we can work something out with you!
• Because Goomies need to stay damp in order to survive, the dry and sunny weather will understandably not be very good for them! Fortunately, they will also be having some Pokemon friends coming to their rescue — so in places where there are Goomies, characters may also spot roving swarms of Bronzong, who will be opening portals to another dimension in order to steal rainclouds and bring some localized downpours to their Goomy friends!
• On February 14, the Pokemon Professors and several other experts in the region will be making a news broadcast recommending that trainers try to keep the mysterious gooblobs damp whenever possible, to try not to hinder them in wherever they're going, and please do not throw them into the oceans and lakes. Invasive species, guys.
• Trainers in Johto may notice that the Goomy swarms appear to be drifting generally eastward; trainers in Kanto will likewise observe them moving westward.
• Local NPC groups may be holding demonstrations, fundraisers, and other volunteer drives encouraging people to Respect The Bloobers! These are mysterious and beautiful creatures (probably) and Pokemon PETA will be quite annoyed if they discover people have been hassling them.
• Again, attempts to register or identify the Goomies with the Pokedex will only return an "Error: No Information!" message.
• ETA: YES, THE GOOMIES CAN BE TAUGHT TMs/HMs, provided your character would ICly think to attempt it!
• February 13 —
• February 14 —
• February 14 — Bronzong also begin to swarm to help out their
• February 14 — The Pokemon Professors make a televised announcement that they have no idea WTF is going on here, either, but it's probably science.
• February 14 — Nationwide grassroots efforts among the NPCs to help, defend, champion, or celebrate the
• February 15 — The
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